I think I shall rename this post and call it: Don’t – stuff you shouldn’t do when trying to make a blog post.
Why? Because well, there are entirely too many jokes to be made about a big butt. Case in point: Fat on your butt. There’s a bone in your butt. Juicy butt. Rub your butt with honey. Make sure it’s big enough to fit your butt in. A little butt rub makes everything better. I’ll stop while I am ahead. [Read more…]
Everyone has a comfort food or foods from their childhood. For you it might be Eggo Waffles…or sausage gravy…or chicken and dumplings…or circus peanuts. You know, I have it on good authority that if you eat too many circus peanuts when you’re little, that you might not be able to even look at them 30 years later. Or so I hear from OTHER PEOPLE. *Cough* Maybe that’s how I can cure all my children from wanting candy – let them eat it until they puke. Yep – good plan.
But anyway, for me that food is Pimento Cheese. And I’m not talking about the goop from the store labeled “pimento cheese.” Blech! No sir. I mean, my Mama’s Pimento cheese. There are tons of homemade pimento cheese recipes out there, but I’m here to tell you that THIS is the best one. I’ve already blessed you all with several of my awesome Mama’s recipes: Mama’s Sausage Macaroni or Mama’s Tomato Soup. Today we’re tackling her Pimento Cheese – because it’s my goal in life to feed the world! [Read more…]
You know how you see those recipes all over Pinterest and the Internet and store magazines? The ones that have the easy chicken dish – the one with rice mixed with a bunch of cream-of-whoknowswhat soups and onion soup mix? Then you put the chicken on top and it’s all done in one hour? It’s like some kind of Amazing Super Duper Kitchen Meal!
Well, I won’t lie. I always skipped over those recipes in the magazines and church cookbooks. Because really, I don’t buy those things any more. I move right on to the recipes calling for bacon or chocolate…or bacon AND chocolate. But today, today my friends, we are going to CONQUER THE CHICKEN DISH!!!! Step aside cream-of-whoknowswhat. Stacy is in town. [Read more…]
Instead of a normal “this is how I do it” type of post, I thought I would do a more “behind the scenes” type of post. This way you can see what’s really going down around the Myers house. As you know, I’m all about keepin’ it real. I’m also all about chocolate and coffee…and sleep. But not dusting.
First off, I got the idea for this recipe when my friend Karen told me she was making it…and I said to her, “I bet I could make that in the crock pot.” And I DID. I love it when I get ideas from friends. So, go ahead…you can always ask me if there is a new recipe you’d like to see in the crock pot. I like getting fresh ideas – I also like getting a haircut. My college major was Random 101. [Read more…]
When Barry and I brought home 231 pounds of pork, I was a weeeee bit overwhelmed. I mean really – I knew the pig was big, but maybe he should have been working out a bit more. My uncle raised the pig for us on the family farm – my neighbors have been cool with the chickens, but I really didn’t want to press my luck with a hog in the back yard.
We turned the 18 pounds of pork belly into homemade bacon, which is utterly fantastic. Now I’m working my way through the other 213 pounds. So…you might be seeing lots of pork recipes in the next year. You’ve been warned. [Read more…]
Deck the table with plates of pork! Fa, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la! Tis the season, to eat hammmmmmmm! Fa, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la! Don we know our body bibs! Fa, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la! While I tell of left-o-VERSSSSSS! Fa, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la!
Barry has done this thing to our family. He takes normal songs and remakes the words. He’s ruined a ton of good Christmas songs. So, just for you I’ll give you his #1 hit…and if you are offended by the word fart, do not read ahead.
In the spirit of keepin’ it real, as I usually do, I’m gonna be honest. I don’t have time to write this post – but I still want to share a yummy recipe. It’s holiday time, I’m behind (better than BEING a behind), and Andy keeps chewing on wires. Soooooooooooooooo, you might see that a few posts here and there are a bit sparse – and that’s because I’m busying chasing around a 15 month old who currently likes to play in the toilet while his sister stands by and watches (partners in crime).
So, it is what it is. Here’s a post full of pictures with a recipe at the bottom. This is a great way to fix chicken if you like hot food. Ciao baby! [Read more…]
So, if you don’t have a thing for meat, this might not be the blog for you. Because really; I might be considered meat-obsessed. I get excited over different variations of meatloaf and meatballs. Sincerely excited. And yes, I realize that might be considered slightly pathetic, but that’s okay. I could be obsessed with worse things…like belly button lint or dust bunnies. And this thought just actually occurred to me, but do you realize that if belly button lint is left long enough, it could possibly turn into a DUST BUNNY? Wow. Now that will get you thinking.
But, I digress. We’re talking about meat, right? Yep. I love making meatloaf in the crock pot. If you’ve not tried out my other three versions: Traditional, Sweet Potato, and Cheeseburger, then you don’t know what you’re missing. Meat just makes bellies happy…I’m still thinking about belly button lint now. [Read more…]
There are approximately 4.5 billion ways you can cook chicken. And yet, it seems most people get in a chicken rut: chicken Alfredo, baked chicken, grilled chicken, blah blah blah. If you haven’t yet figured it out, one of my goals here is to get you out of your food rut – whether it be a side dish rut or a skillet meal rut.
Recently, I have a love affair with coconut. Not gonna lie, I’m putting it in just about everything: cake, granola, muffins, cake, eggs in coconut oil, cake, coffee, cake, and sometimes coffee cake. I’m also using a lot more coconut milk because I like sniffing it. I just like sniffing coconut in general. I think this might be getting out of hand – my mom is concerned. “It was pretty good – but there’s coconut in it again.”
So, this recipe was born because I bought a jar of sun dried tomatoes – and then I didn’t know what to do with it. So, they sat in my basement for a while…until I almost knocked them off the shelf and broke them. Then I figured it might be in my best interest to use them so that I wouldn’t end up cleaning them off the floor.
I’ve never been to Tuscany – and I’ve never really had Tuscan food. I’m not even sure what makes it Tuscan…garlic? If you know, please tell me in the comments. And I know you do, because I have the smartest readers EVAH! But, I know that a lot of Tuscan recipes call for sundried tomatoes…and so, I call this Tuscan Chicken! Voila!
